The easiest way to reset a forgotten Windows password is to use a previously created password-reset disk. You can create such a disk (on USB removable media or a floppy) within the Windows User ...

When you purchase a Windows computer, you have to create a user account in order to use it. Microsoft gives you a facility to create multiple user accounts, including work or school accounts and ...

Acer has configured the BIOS supervisor password so that it is only eight characters long. After you enter the password, the BIOS automatically converts it to all capital letters, which means you must ...

More than four years ago, Alicia Katz Pollock wrote “Five Ways to Reset a Lost Administrator Password” (17 January 2014), and through the vagaries of Google’s search algorithm, it remains our most ...

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We’ve all been there: staring at the login screen, trying to remember which password variation we’re supposed to use on a particular site. Thankfully, a quick call to the IT helpdesk can easily get us ...